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PCM however offers a unique opportunity and we show how the recent discovery of the impact of metacetamol (MCM) in stabilizing PCM form II can be used to advantage, enabling otherwise impossible comparative kinetic experiments to be made. Resulting from this study we now appreciate that MCM has a selective impact in blocking the growth of the thickness and width of PCM form I while it has no impact on form II. This is interpreted in terms of strong adsorption of MCM on the 011 faces (width and thickness) of form I in orientations that inhibit crystal growth ("wrong" orientations). Of more significance here is the use of the additive in allowing an otherwise impossible comparison of linear growth rates of forms I and II. This leads to the appreciation that only through calculation of growth volumes can we finally appreciate how the relative growth kinetics lead inevitably to the elusive nature of Form II.The semihydrogenation of phenylacetylene to styrene represents an important process for optimizing the polystyrene production and also a model reaction for the evaluation of selective hydrogenation catalysts. Although the alloying strategy and surface engineering for noble metal (particularly for Pd) catalysts can effectively inhibit the overhydrogenation of styrene, the selectivity of phenylacetylene semihydrogenation to styrene is generally below 95% near the full conversion. Here, we demonstrate the electronic modulation of Pd-based bimetallic nanocluster catalysts based on the strong metal-support interactions for improving the catalytic selectivity for phenylacetylene semihydrogenation. A series of Pd-M (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ga) bimetallic nanoclusters of ∼2 nm are immobilized on mesoporous sulfur-doped carbon (meso_S-C) supports, which exhibit a high selectivity of >97% for the semihydrogenation of phenylacetylene to styrene. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/ptc-209.html The strong interaction between metal and the meso_S-C supports enables the modulation of electronic structure of the bimetallic nanoparticles and thus leads to the selectivity enhancement for the phenylacetylene semihydrogenation.Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) density maps at medium resolution (5-10 Å) reveal secondary structural features such as α-helices and β-sheets, but they lack the side chain details that would enable a direct structure determination. Among the more than 800 entries in the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) of medium-resolution density maps that are associated with atomic models, a wide variety of similarities can be observed between maps and models. To validate such atomic models and to classify structural features, a local similarity criterion, the F1 score, is proposed and evaluated in this study. The F1 score is theoretically normalized to a range from zero to one, providing a local measure of cylindrical agreement between the density and atomic model of a helix. A systematic scan of 30,994 helices (among 3,247 protein chains modeled into medium-resolution density maps) reveals an actual range of observed F1 scores from 0.171 to 0.848, suggesting that the cylindrical fit of the current data is well stratified by the proposed measure. The best (highest) F1 scores tend to be associated with regions that exhibit high and spatially homogeneous local resolution (between 5 Å and 7.5 Å) in the helical density. The proposed F1 scores can be used as a discriminative classifier for validation studies and as a ranking criterion for cryo-EM density features in databases.With the development of low order scaling methods for performing Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory, it is now possible to perform fully quantum mechanical calculations of systems containing tens of thousands of atoms. However, with an increase in the size of system treated comes an increase in complexity, making it challenging to analyze such large systems and determine the cause of emergent properties. To address this issue, in this paper we present a systematic complexity reduction methodology which can break down large systems into their constituent fragments, and quantify inter-fragment interactions. The methodology proposed here requires no a priori information or user interaction, allowing a single workflow to be automatically applied to any system of interest. We apply this approach to a variety of different systems, and show how it allows for the derivation of new system descriptors, the design of QM/MM partitioning schemes, and the novel application of graph metrics to molecules and materials.The overexpression of NIK plays a critical role in liver inflammatory diseases. Treatment of such diseases with small-molecule NIK inhibitors is a reasonable but underexplored approach. In this paper, we reported the discovery of a potent and selective NIK inhibitor 46 (XT2). 46 inhibited the NIK kinase with an IC50 value of 9.1 nM in vitro, and it also potently suppressed NIK activities in intact cells. In isogenic primary hepatocytes, treatment of 46 efficiently suppressed the expressions of NIK-induced genes. 46 was orally bioavailable in mice with moderate systemic exposure. In a NIK-associated mouse liver inflammation model, 46 suppressed CCl4-induced upregulation of ALT, a key biomarker of acute liver injury. 46 also decreased immune cell infiltration into the injured liver tissue. Overall, these studies provide examples that an NIK inhibitor is able to suppress toxin-induced liver inflammations, which indicates its therapeutic potentials for the treatment of liver inflammatory diseases.The asymmetric catalytic P-H addition of racemic secondary phosphines to electrophilic α-diazoesters via P*-N bond formation is disclosed for the first time. Interaction between the diazoester and the palladium catalyst resulted in the unusually enhanced electrophilic ability of the terminal nitrogen in the diazo functionality, as opposed to the commonly expected formation of a metal carbene by nitrogen elimination. Further derivatization of the generated phosphinic hydrazones provided access to enantioenriched P-stereogenic diarylphosphinates via a simple transformation.A series of eosin Y (EY)-embedded zirconium-based metal-organic frameworks (Zr-MOFs) were prepared by utilizing the synthetic encapsulating method. By virtue of effective resonant energy transfer between Zr-MOF and EY, not only does EY@Zr-MOF exhibit dual-emissive characteristics, but also the relative intensity of their double emission is greatly tuned with increasing EY loading quantity. As a consequence, the double emission of EY@Zr-MOF presented large distinctions in location and intensity. By using the relative fluorescence intensity instead of the absolute fluorescence intensity of emission peaks as detection signals, two EY@Zr-MOFs served as built-in self-calibrated fluorescence sensors to detect pesticides, where EY@Zr-MOF realized the selective detection of nitenpyram, a kind of nicotine pesticide. These results indicate that the integration of robust Zr-MOF and fluorescence molecules provides a new research platform for pesticide sensing and recognition.